Shabbat 70A

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The Talmud asks: What is different about the former clause, which states that he in only liable to bring one sin-offering for each Shabbat, and the latter clause, which states that he is liable for each and every primary category of labor that he performed? Rav Safra said: Here, where he is unaware

We learned in the Mishnah that one is liable to bring a sin-offering for each prohibited labor that he performs on Shabbat. The Talmud asks: From where do we derive the division of labors? What is the source of the halakha that if one performs numerous prohibited labors on Shabbat in the course of

The Talmud asks: And let him derive division of labors from where it was derived according to R' Natan, as it was taught in a baraita that R' Natan says that it is written: “You shall not kindle fire in all your dwellings on the day of Shabbat” (Exodus 35:3). Why does the verse state this halakha? T

I might have thought that if one performed them all in the course of one lapse of awareness, forgetting that they are prohibited, he would be liable to bring only one sin-offering? Therefore, the verse states: “6 days you shall work, and on the 7th you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest ti

R' Natan cited a source proving that there is liability for performance of each prohibited labor of Shabbat on its own. Why doesn’t Shmuel derive that halakha from the same source? The Talmud answers: Shmuel holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, who disagreed with R' Natan’s interpretat